www.astangayurveda.com Aahara Kalpana Indian food unlike many other continental food is prepared with different oil, spice, flavours, essence etc. These are not there attract the foody people. The process is there to secrete salive, create interest in food, eliminate distraction from food and properly digest the food taken. Coming back from my last diversified article on Basanta ritu charya,…

www.astangayurveda.com Basanta Ritu Charya: Life style in spring season:-  I slept yester night thinking of writing something about the Ayurvedic way of "selecting and taking food". In between the twittering sound of birds in the morning from the near by trees reminds me the presence of spring season the Basanta ritu. Basanta ritu charya or lifestyle in spring season…

www.astangayurveda.com Agni | Appetite and Digestion Power Agni moolam cha deha dharanamiti. Agni is the root of all reasons to uphold the body. In Ayurveda Agni is a very vast word. Loss of appetite, indigestion, no interest in food are separate concepts. Agni in our digestive system is just like the native fire place to cook food. If you feed…

www.astangayurveda.com According to WHO (World Health Organization), Health is nothing but a complete state of physical, mental, social and spiritual welbeing and not merely the absence of any disease or deformity. This definition resembles with the holy version of Maharshi Sushruta (considered to be the father of surgery) where he says- Sama dosha samagnischa…

www.astangayurveda.com Last evening I had written about life which includes the word 'body'. But what is body? Modern physics says that a body is that what acquires space. We cannot deny it. But a more authentic statement which I believe to be a more eternal truth is 'a body is perishable'. Ayurveda says- Siryate kshyayate anena iti…